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Today we enter beta phase for RED Brick image 1.10. Normaly, we would release a new RED Brick image right away, but this time we want to test the new image in a public beta test, because it contains several big changes (e.g. new Kernel and Debian version). You can find the new image here: http://download.tinkerforge.com/red_110beta1/. You'll also need the current Brick Viewer 2.3.11.

Changes include:

Update to Linux Kernel version 4.13

Update to Debian version 9

On-Demand CPU frequency control

Network management with Network Manager for faster response time in Brick Viewer

Support for more WIFI USB sticks (with better support for Access Point Mode)

Update all Brick/Bricklet Bindings for all languages to lastest version

Known problems:

Stack communication in Brick Daemon is currently not DMA-accelerated and uses more CPU power. This will be fixed for the final version.

The display resolution cannot be changed at runtime. We're looking into it at the moment. It's unclear if this can be fixed.

No support for 3D/OpenGL hardware acceleration. The necessary Mali drivers are currently not yet ported to the newest kernel versions. We will release a new image as soon as we can add the drivers again. 2D hardware acceleration (for normal desktop environment usage etc) is working fine!